Introduction to Longevity

We live in the age of data. Rapid advancement in data analysis skills transform every aspect of our lives and our health.

Hence it becomes increasingly possible to attain a clear understanding of the individual biological mechanisms that take place on a cellular level as we age. A rapidly growing number of tools, preventive measures and therapies for aging have been developed. Longevity at sweet skin wants to prevent rather than just cure after the fact. This perspective starkly contrasts with traditional healthcare, where aging is considered inevitable and individual diseases and its symptoms are being treated. Longevity medicine and research is complementing and improving our proven tools as doctors and dermatologists, enhancing our capabilities to be our patients counsel for longer healthier lifespans.

The fact that our cells age is a major factor in the development of chronic diseases such as various forms of cancer, parkinson, diabetes etc. Longevity research has a key hypothesis: By preventing aging, we can also prevent the onset or lower the gravity of various chronic diseases.

In other words: solving the mystery of aging would also benefit our overall health by treating the root cause of aging rather than individual diseases. Armed with this knowledge, we are then able to slow down our biological aging process and thus the progression of age-related disability and diseases based on individual level biomarkers. To put it differently: we are increasingly able to influence our biological age.

The biological age is measured in an ever-growing number of biomarkers in an individual using powerful artificial intelligence and machine learning tools. At sweet skin we refer to groups of biomarkers as “age clocks”. Age clocks are based on large volumes of actual clinical data and use deep learning and AI to measure an individual’s personal state of aging. Examples are deep learning-based photo aging clocks, blood age clocks or also epigenetic profiles.

The biological age can be influenced by lifestyle factors such as nutritional balance, activity level or preventive measures such as for example supplementation or topical applications influencing the biomarkers of aging. With the right lifestyle changes it is possible to achieve a younger biological age than the chronological age. This is what we call “personal longevity paths” that we are developing for our patients to influence and measure both the biological age as a whole as well as the skin age.